-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Call For Papers HiCOMB 2010 9th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology http://www.hicomb.org/ held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium http://www.ipdps.org/ Monday, April 19, 2010 Atlanta, Georgia -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Computational Biology are related disciplines are fast emerging as an important area for academic research and industrial application. The large size of biological data sets, inherent complexity of biological problems and the ability to deal with error-prone data all result in large run-time and memory requirements. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of latest research in developing high-performance computing solutions to problems arising from molecular biology and related life sciences areas. We are especially interested in parallel algorithms, memory-efficient algorithms, large scale data mining techniques, and design of high-performance software. The workshop will feature contributed papers as well as invited talks from reputed researchers in the field. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Bioinformatic databases * Computational genomics * Computational proteomics * DNA assembly, clustering and mapping * Gene expression and microarrays * Gene identification and annotation * Parallel algorithms for biological analysis * Parallel architectures for biological applications * Molecular evolution * Molecular sequence analysis * Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms * Protein structure prediction and modeling * String data structures and algorithms * Parallel algorithms in chemical genetics and chemical informatics Submission Guidelines: ---------------------- Papers reporting original research (both theoretical and experimental) in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology are sought. Surveys of important recent results and directions are also welcome. To submit a paper, upload a postscript or PDF copy of the paper from the workshop web page (http://www.hicomb.org/). The paper should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (US Letter or A4 size) in 11pt font or larger. All papers will be reviewed. IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. The complete symposium and workshop proceedings will also be published by IEEE CS Press on CD-ROM and will also be available in the IEEE Digital Library. Important Dates: ---------------- November 30, 2009 Workshop Submissions Due December 25, 2009 Author Notification February 1, 2009 Camera-ready Paper Due Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- David A. Bader College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Phone: +1.404.894.3152 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bader Srinivas Aluru Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg. Iowa State University 3227 Coover Hall Ames, IA 50011 USA Phone: +1.515.294.3539 Email: aluru@iastate.edu Program Chair: -------------- George Karypis Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Email: karypis@cs.umn.edu http://www.cs.umn.edu/~karypis Program Committee: ------------------ Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Inanc Birol, Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia, Canada Georg Fuellen, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany Ananth Grama, Purdue University, Indiana, USA Mark Miller, San Diego Supecomputer Center, California, USA Sandeep Patel, University of Delaware, USA Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, Virginia, USA Jared Simpson, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Alexandros Stamatakis, Technische Universität Munchen, Munich, Germany John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Evripidis Sotiriadis, Tech. Univ. of Crete, Greece Denis Trystram, LIG, France Chau-Wen Tseng, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Ian Watson, Lilly, Indiana, USA Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA Ying Zhao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Sydney,